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Monday Feb 24, 2014

This
presentation accompanies a hands-on-lab session in which Puppet will be
used to automatically provision Oracle WebLogic Server. Puppet is a
tool to automate configuration management.

Together with Chef it's
one of the more popular configuration management tools at the moment.
Puppet allows you to describe the desired (to-be) state of your servers
by declaring resources. These declarations can describe user accounts,
security settings, packages, directories, files, executable statements,
services, and so on.

Manifests are the files in which resource
declarations are listed. Puppet periodically applies manifests by
translating manifests into specific commands (catalogs) and executes
those on the managed servers. Puppet is capable of inspecting the
machines so it only applies those changes that are necessary. If a
machine is already in the desired state Puppet will apply no changes.

Tuesday Feb 18, 2014

This
presentation accompanies a hands-on-lab session in which Puppet will be
used to automatically provision Oracle WebLogic Server. Puppet is a
tool to automate configuration management.

Together with Chef it's
one of the more popular configuration management tools at the moment.
Puppet allows you to describe the desired (to-be) state of your servers
by declaring resources. These declarations can describe user accounts,
security settings, packages, directories, files, executable statements,
services, and so on.

Manifests are the files in which resource
declarations are listed. Puppet periodically applies manifests by
translating manifests into specific commands (catalogs) and executes
those on the managed servers. Puppet is capable of inspecting the
machines so it only applies those changes that are necessary. If a
machine is already in the desired state Puppet will apply no changes.